Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming O.o. So I don't see any weight issues by super-breeding fish.

Interesting about the see-through thingy. But if we use the light from the other side of a surface, how would we be able to see through skin? Is there a light source inside our bodies I am not aware of?!

It seems impressive to extract DNA from an eggshell that's millions of years old, but not so much when you consider a chicken has one billion base pairs in its genome and they only got out 250 of them. But you do the best you can...

I recently had a lecture about those gyandromorphous chickens, but they didn't tell us that the cells in a chicken don't use hormones for growth and development. That's fascinating! Is it just a mammalian thing? And I wonder when it evolved?

Nincompoop:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming O.o. So I don't see any weight issues by super-breeding fish.

Interesting about the see-through thingy. But if we use the light from the other side of a surface, how would we be able to see through skin? Is there a light source inside our bodies I am not aware of?!

Yes, there is. You are savagely radiating and you don't even know it. It's infrared light. Although I'm not sure if it could be used for imagery...

I keep imagining the guy from Jurassic Park shouting 'Nature has found a way!' and then being overrun with chickens, Zelda-style. The fact that the very next news piece was about androgynous chickens didn't help it, either... Seriously speaking, it just goes to show how little science really knows about things like sex (er, as in gender) that one might think is simple.

Is it bad that I read "six pack rainbow trout" and immediately reorganized the words as "rainbow six trout pack" and imagined a DLC for a Rainbow Six games that adds a trout-based game mode?

In mammals, sex is typically determined by the presence of a gene on the Y chromosome and the influence of hormones that instruct cells to become ovaries or testes. This system was believed to be consistent throughout all vertebrate species.

Nincompoop:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming O.o. So I don't see any weight issues by super-breeding fish.

Interesting about the see-through thingy. But if we use the light from the other side of a surface, how would we be able to see through skin? Is there a light source inside our bodies I am not aware of?!

Yes, there is. You are savagely radiating and you don't even know it. It's infrared light. Although I'm not sure if it could be used for imagery...

I know we radiate. I was referring to visible light.

I was about to make an edit to my comment, asking if other than the visible light could be used. But then the thickness could be over-come by more than a few centimeters. But I think the idea is to make an image, exactly like we see it.

Nincompoop:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming O.o. So I don't see any weight issues by super-breeding fish.

Buffing the muscles means the fish will weigh more, it's swim bladder has evolved to carry a specific amount of weight. They'd have to increase that too or the fish would drown.

Sure. That makes sense. But if from birth they would have weighed more than usual, would their bladders be able to evolve in time? I mean, does it have to take a mutation in the species?

It would take a few generations for a an adaption to evolve naturally. As an example, the Brown snake here in Australia was under threat from the Cane Toad (especially toxic glands) when the snake ate it it would be poisoned and die. In the span of about 50 years, it evoled to a smaller head so it would be unable to eat the toad.

Maybe with a little encouragement, the fish wont have to wait that long.

You know, there's actually a very unpopular and very crappy spoof of Jurassic Park called Chicken Park. I'm not joking. This is real. I saw it about 7 years ago when i was in high school and it was so utterly awful that we couldn't stop laughing.

The most memorable part was when the female love interest said she was getting so hot, and the main male protagonist agreed and started cooking spaghetti on her "hot" tummy.

Nincompoop:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming O.o. So I don't see any weight issues by super-breeding fish.

Buffing the muscles means the fish will weigh more, it's swim bladder has evolved to carry a specific amount of weight. They'd have to increase that too or the fish would drown.

Sure. That makes sense. But if from birth they would have weighed more than usual, would their bladders be able to evolve in time? I mean, does it have to take a mutation in the species?

It would take a few generations for a an adaption to evolve naturally. As an example, the Brown snake here in Australia was under threat from the Cane Toad (especially toxic glands) when the snake ate it it would be poisoned and die. In the span of about 50 years, it evoled to a smaller head so it would be unable to eat the toad.

Maybe with a little encouragement, the fish wont have to wait that long.

Interesting. Thanks for the information. And that is not sarcastic if it sounds so. I just don't know how to reply when I have nothing to reply with.Thanks for the chit chat =).

i realize im splitting hairs but im a chicken nerd and a hen is a female. and a cockerel is a young male. pullet is young female. and i noticed male sex feathers on the roosters neck on both sides.... just saying